Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!njin!paul.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jclark%sdcc6@ucsd.edu (John Clark) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Mormons against the Bible! Message-ID: Date: 25 Dec 90 06:12:09 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 24 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article farkas@eng.sun.com (Frank Farkas) writes: + +This is what I call rationalization. There is nothing at all which tells +us that Pharaoh hardened his own heart. I take a more honest approach and +say that this is a corruption of the Biblical text. The proof lies in the +Bible itself, what it teaches about God. What does it teach? Where Adam and Eve were 'fully' aware of the ramifications of taking the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil? If so then why didn't they 'know' the evil that would come. The Genesis story give no instructions on sacrificial methods but Able's sacrifice was 'good' and Cain's not. That David could kill a friend to obtain the object of his desire, be called righteous, but Uza was killed in an instant in an attempt to right the ark of the covanent. That Judah could consort with what he presumed to be a prostitute, and still be in the lineage of David and eventually Jesus. The deity seems some what inconsisent to me. -- John Clark jclark@ucsd.edu